Contents

Preface by Grey Gowrie    xiii

ALEX ALLISON (1920–1968)
Olive Tree    
GILLIAN ALLNUTT (1949– )
from Lizzie Siddall: Her Journal (1862)
    ‘Laudanum’    
    ‘I, Lizzie, once a girl’    
ANYTE (3 BC) translated by Carol Whiteside and John Heath-Stubbs
On a Dolphin    
‘Many times lamenting, Cleina, the mother’
‘In life this man was Manes, a slave’    
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE (1880–1918) translated by Oliver Bernard
Zone    
ALISON APPLEBE (1948– )
Woman    
Gargoyle    
Sex Objects    
ANTHONY ASTBURY (1940– )
Letter    
Warwick    
Loss     
English Lesson    
GEORGE BARKER (1913–1991)
Roman Poem III
Morning in Norfolk    
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE (1821–1867) translated by Arthur Osborne
Le Voyage    
WILLIAM BELL (1924–1948)
‘All summer long in dreams I would remember’    
‘Perhaps the unbroken colt beside the river’    
GIACONDA BELLI (1948– ) translated by John Lyons
New York     
THOMAS BLACKBURN (1916–1977)
The Unpredictable    
An Epitaph    
ROBERT BRIDGES (1844–1930)
Triolet    
EMILY BRONTË (1818–1848)
‘I am the only being whose doom’    
NORMAN CAMERON (1905–1953)
A Visit to the Dead    
THOMAS CAMPION (1567–1620)
‘Never weather-beaten Saile more willing bent to shore’    
THOMAS CAREW (1594–1640)
Persuasions to Love    
CATULLUS (c. 84–54 BC) translated by Peter Whigham
‘Lesbia’    
THOMAS CHATTERTON (1752–1770)
‘Walpole! I thought not I should ever see’    
JOHN CLARE (1793–1864)
The Gipsy Camp    
HARTLEY COLERIDGE (1796–1849)
Song (‘The earliest wish I ever knew’)    
ABRAHAM COWLEY (1618–1667)
The Innocent Ill    
HART CRANE (1899–1932)
Episode of Hands    
Repose of Rivers    
Eternity    
ELIZABETH DARYUSH (1887–1977)
‘Autumn, dark wanderer halted here once more’    
‘Anger lay by me all night long’    
Still-Life    
SIR JOHN DAVIES (1567–1626)
from Orchestra
    ‘Thus they who first did found a commonweal’    
GAIL DENDY (1957– )
The Coin of Africa    
Assault    
Goodbye and All That    
EMILY DICKINSON ((1830–1886)
‘To lose one’s faith – surpass’    
ERNEST DOWSON (1867–1900)
Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam    
NESSIE DUNSMUIR (1908–1999)
‘I would have chosen children’    
‘He for whose sake’    
LAWRENCE DURRELL (1912–1990)
Nobody    
A Patch of Dust    
KATE ELLIS (1976– )
festivals of mouthpieces    
MARTIN FARREN (1942– )
from The Name of This Poem Is Always the Same
    ‘– all that concrete, steel’    
JAMES ELROY FLECKER (1884–1915)
The Translator and the Children    
Oxford Canal    
B.H. FRASER (1961– )
Business Centre    
GEORGE GASCOIGNE (1539–1577)
The Green Knight’s Farewell to Fancy    
DAVID GASCOYNE (1916–2001)
The cold renunciatory beauty    
A Tough Generation    
GEOFFREY GODBERT (1938– )
Of course you are beautiful    
GREY GOWRIE (1939– )
From Primrose Hill    
W.S. GRAHAM (1918–1986)
Letter VI    
The Beast in the Space    
Greenock at Night I Find You    
ROBERT GRAVES (1895–1986)
Despite and Still    
What We Did Next    
Ouzo Unclouded    
FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE (1554–1628)
‘Man, dream no more of curious mysteries’    
ANGELA HALL (1941– )
She Always Sang    
IAN HAMILTON (1938–2001)
Almost Nothing    
Biography    
Rose    
JOHN HEATH-STUBBS (1918–2006)
Prayer to Saint Lucy    
The Green Man’s Last Will and Testament    
Quatrains    
EDWARD, LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY (1583–1648)
A Description    
GEORGE HERBERT (1593–1633)
Sin    
ROBERT HERRICK (1591–1674)
The Vine    
NAZIM HIKMET (1902–1963) translated by Richard McKane
Advice for Someone Going into Prison    
LIBBY HOUSTON (1941– )
The Story of Arachne    
LIONEL JOHNSON (1867–1902)
To Morfydd    
The Dark Angel    
JULIE KANE (1952– )
Kissing the Bartender    
JUDITH KAZANTZIS (1940– )
The Dump    
MARIUS KOCIEJOWSKI (1949– )
The Water Clock    
Babel    
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR (1775–1864)
Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher    
EUGENE LEE-HAMILTON (1845–1907)
La Balue to Louis XI    
Chastelard to Mary Stuart    
GIACOMO LEOPARDI (1798–1837) translated by John Heath-Stubbs
The Infinite    
RICHARD LOVELACE (1618–1657)
To Chloris: Love Made in the First Age    
ANTONIO MACHADO (1875–1939) translated by Charles Tomlinson
Poem of a Day    
JOHN MASEFIELD (1878–1967)
from Reynard the Fox
    ‘The lurcher dogs soon shot their bolt’    
DANNY MILNE (1938– )
Abandonment    
ROBERT NYE (1939– )
Eurynome    
Not Looking    
EDNA O’ BRIEN (1932– )
from On the Bone
    ‘Forget the fine phrases’    
JULIAN ORDE (1917–1974)
Conjurors    
CLERE PARSONS (1908–1931
Suburban Nature Piece    
BORIS PASTERNAK (1890–1960) translated by Michael Harari
Unique Days    
Bread    
FERNANDO PESSOA (1888–1935) translated by Jonathan Griffin
Tobacconist’s    
HAROLD PINTER (1930–2008)
The Irish Shape
I know the place    
Cancer Cells    
PO CHÜ-I (AD 772–846) translated by Arthur Waley
Song and Dance    
The Chrysanthemums in the Eastern Garden    
ROBERT M. POLLET (1945–1985)
Egyptian Child    
JOHN PRESS (1920–2007)
Womanisers    
The Shadows    
ROGER PRINGLE (1944– )
Neighbours    
SALLY PURCELL (1944–1998)
Guenever and the looking-glass    
March 1603    
HENRY REED (1914–1978)
The Auction Sale    
JAMES REEVES (1909–1978)
The Little Brother    
The Prisoners    
ANNE RIDLER (1912–2001)
A Matter of Life and Death    
ALAN ROSS (1922–2001)
Angel of Harwich    
Clothes on a Chair    
Leave Train    
MARTIN SEYMOUR-SMITH (1928–1998)
On the Beach
Learning to Fall Out of Love    
C.H. SISSON (1914–2003)
‘If love and death are one and the same thing’
For the Queen’s Jubilee    
Ellick Farm    
ELIZABETH SMART (1913–1986)
Slightly Rhyming Verses for Jeff Bernard’s Fiftieth Birthday    
A.C.H. SMITH (1935– )
Structures of Cancer    
STEVIE SMITH (1902–1971)
To Carry the Child    
BERNARD SPENCER (1909–1963)
On the ‘Sievering’ Tram    
Part of Plenty    
JON STALLWORTHY (1935– )
War Poet    
GASPARA STAMPA (c. 1523–1554) translated by Sally Purcell
‘Love, standing by my side’
‘All the planets in heaven, all the stars’    
SIR JOHN SUCKLING (1609–1642)
Song (‘Honest lover whatsoever’)    
A.C. SWINBURNE (1837–1909)
A Leave-Taking    
ARSENY TARKOVSKY (1907–1989) translated by Richard McKane
‘I dreamed this dream and I still dream of it’    
FRANCIS THOMPSON (1859–1907)
Nightmare of the Witch Babies    
THOMAS TRAHERNE (1637–1674)
Shadows in the Water
HENRY VAUGHAN (1622–1695)
The Old Man of Verona out of Claudian    
Peace    
ANNA WICKHAM (1884–1947)
The Fired Pot
HUGO WILLIAMS (1942– )
Some R&B and Black Pop    
Legend    
Balcony Scene    
JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER (1647–1680)
Upon Nothing    
HENRY WOOLF (1930– )
‘Who taught you’    
Parents    
DAVID WRIGHT (1920–1994)
Encounter in a Glass    
Winter Verses for Tambimuttu    

List of Greville Press Publications, 1975–2010
Index of Titles    
Acknowledgements